Extending ‘Contact Tracing’ into the Community within a 50-Metre Radius of an Index Tuberculosis Patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in Urban, Pakistan: Did It Increase Case Detection?

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 11; no. 11; p. e0165813
• Main Authors: Fatima, Razia, Qadeer, Ejaz, Yaqoob, Aashifa, Haq, Mahboob ul, Majumdar, Suman S., Shewade, Hemant D., Stevens, Robert, Creswell, Jacob, Mahmood, Nasir, Kumar, Ajay M. V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 29.11.2016; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Analysis; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Child; Child, Preschool; Communities; Computer and Information Sciences; Contact tracing; Contact Tracing - methods; Diagnosis; Drug resistance; Earth Sciences; Epidemiology; Ethics; Female; Geographic information systems; Geography; Ghettos; Households; Humans; Infant; Infant, Newborn; Intervention; Lung diseases; Male; Medical diagnosis; Medicine and Health Sciences; Microscopy; Mycobacterium; Outcome Assessment (Health Care); Pakistan - epidemiology; Patients; People and Places; Population; Research and Analysis Methods; Retrospective Studies; Slums; Smallpox; Smear; Studies; Systematic review; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - diagnosis; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Ultrasonic testing; Pakistan; East Asia; Islamabad Pakistan; France; India

Currently, only 62% of incident tuberculosis (TB) cases are reported to the national programme in Pakistan. Several innovative interventions are being recommended to detect the remaining 'missed' TB cases. One such intervention involved expanding contact investigation to the community usin...